Safety feeder for wringers



E. KLEINHAMPLE SAFETY FEEDER FOR WRINGERS Filed Sept. l5 1924 ED e0 IG-E'INH MPLET INVENTOR ATTORNEY -Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

UNITED STATES EDWARD KLETNHAMPLE, OF MILLVALE, PENNSYLVANIA.

SAFETY FEEDER FOR WRINGERS.

Application filed September 15, 1924. Serial No. 737,881.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EDWARD KLEINHAM- PLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Millvale, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety Feeders for VVringers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to feeding devices forwringers, and more particularly to what I term a safety feeder for wringers.

One of the main objects of the invention is to provide simple and efficient means which may be readily applied to wringers of standard construction such as commonly used in connection with washing machines whereby the articles to be passed through the rollers of the wringer can be fed thereto in such manner as to eliminate possibility of the operators fingers being drawn between the wringer rollers. A further object is to provide a device of the character stated which can be readily produced and applied mg of articles between the wringer rollers.

Further objects will appear from the detail description.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front view of the feeder as applied to a wringer of standard construction;

Figure 2 is an end view;

Figure 3 is a section taken substantially on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

The wringer A may be of any suitable or preferred construction, that illustrated being of a well known type and including two rollers B the upper one of which is pressed toward the lower roller and is adjustable toward and away from the same in a known manner. These rollers may be rotated by hand or may be driven from a suitable source of power by means-of a shaft C which is operatively connected to the rollers by suitable gearing positioned in a casing or housing D. This wringer is intended to be mounted upon amotor-operated washing machine in a known manner and in position to receive articles removed from the machine to be passed between the rollers B. Wringers of this type and the manner of mounting the same on washing machines are well known in this art and need not be fur ther described in detail.

In carrying out my invention I provide a supporting and brace strip 1 which is secured to the wrmger frame in parallellsm with and adjacent to the lowerv portion of.

bracket 2 and the outer portion of this shaft is bent to provide an integral crank 6 A stub-shaft 7 is rockably mounted through arm 2 of the other bracket 2 and a collar 8 is secured on each of the stubshafts, this collar being positioned adjacent to the in-f ner face of arm 2*. Collar 8 is provided with a tangentially extending finger 9. A.

sheet metal feed plate 10 is secured by rivets 11, or in any other suitable or preferred manner,'to fingers 9, and the lower portion of this plate is extended about collars 8 and secured thereto by rivets 12, these rivets also serving to secure the collars on the stubshafts. tegral tubular portion 10 which connects the collars 8 and serves. to materially reinforce the plate. At its upper edge plate 10 is provided with a toothed or serrated portion 13tlie serrations of which are rounded so as not to present any sharp points' or corners such as would tend to puncture or tear the fabric of articles fed between the rollers B bythe plate. a

In using the device plate 10 is rocked upwardly and outwardly away from rollers B intosubstantially vertical position so as to permit an article which is passed between tion illustrated thus so positioning the arti cle as to ensure its being fed betweenthe; rollers 'during rotation of the same, as :m

Fig. 2. When the article'isplaced upon the serrated edge portion of the plate and" the plate is turned into operative position,

a portion of the article may be positioned beneath the plate but this portion will be This provides plate 10 with an inwithdrawn from beneath the plate by the action of the rollers, after which the article of the wringer is-eliminated thus eli'ectu-v ally eliminating all possibility of the oper ators fingers being drawn between the rollers and crushed or otherwise injured thereby,--such as not infrequently occurs where the articles are 'fedbetween the rollers directlyby hand. This device can be readily produced and sold at small cost and can be i'eadily applied to wringers of standard construction which is a very material advantage. Y i

'As will be noted more clearly from'Figures 1 and 3, body 2 of bracket 2 is somewhat' thickened relative to arm 2 and the upper end of the body is positioned slightly below the upper edge of the arm thus pro-' viding a shoulder which acts as a stop element to limit movement of plate 10 toward the lower roller B thus supporting the plate at an inclination. "Vhenthe plate is in operative'position it is disposed at an upward and inward inclination to the rollers and provides a continuous smooth surface over whichthe' articles to be passed .be-

tween the rollers can be readily drawn thus facilitating feeding or the articles between the rollers. In this respect the smooth rounded surface presented by portion 10 of the plate is of material assistance in fa cilitating drawing of the articles onto plate 10 and thence between the: rollers.

What I claim is j 1. An attachment for a wringer having compressing rollers, including supporting brackets, means for attaching the brackets to the wringer below the lower roller there-' of, a feed plate rotatably mounted at its outer edge between the brackets, and means for turning said plate about its axis of movement into and out of operative position, the plate when in operative position beingdisposed at an upward and inward inclination to the rollers with its free edge positioned between the rollers, said plate when inits inoperative position" having its free edge spaced away'from the rollers and,

disposed for reception of articles placed v thereon; V

2. An attachment. for a wrin'ger" having compressing rollers, including "supporting bracket-s, meansjfor attaching the brackets to the wringer, 'a' feed plate rotatably mounted at its outer edge between the brackets, andmeans for turning said plate about its axis of movement into and out of operative position, the plate when in operative position being disposed at an upward and inward inclination to the rollers with its free edge positioned between the rollers, said plate when in its inoperative position having its fre edge spaced away from the rollers and disposed forreception of arti cles placed thereon. i a

3. An attachment for a wringer having compressing rollers, including supporting brackets, means for attaching the brackets to the wring-er, a feed plate provided at its outer edge with a rounded tubular portion rotatably mounted between the brackets, and means for turning'said plate about its axis ofmovement into and out of operative position, theplate when in operative position being disposed at an upward and inward inclination to the rollers with its free edge positioned between the rollers, said plate when in its inoperative position having its free edge spaced away from'the roll ersand disposed for reception of articles placed thereon. r i

4. An attachment for a wringer having compressing rollers, including supporting brackets, means for attaching the brackets to-the wringer, a feed plate provided at its outer edge with a rounded tubular portion, collars secured in the-ends of said tubular portion, andstub-shaftssecured in said col j lars androt'atably mounted in the brackets, the plate being turnable about the axisol .the shafts into and out of operative position, said plate when in operative position being inclined upwardlyand inwardly of the rollers: with its freeedge between the same, the plate when in inoperative position being disposed to receive articles placed on the free edge thereof. I

5. An attachment for a wringer having compressing rollers, including supporting brackets, means for attaching the brackets, to the wringer, a smooth and flat feed plate rotatably mounted at its outer edge between the brackets for moving the free edge of the plate toward and away from the rollers in accordance with turningof the plate about its axis of movement, the plate when in operative position being disposed at an upward and inward inclination to the wringer rollers with its free edge positioned between the same, said plate when in. inop erative position being disposed for reception of articles placed on its free edge,

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